Religion Quotes by Brennan Manning

The ancient spiritual tradition is that God gives himself fully to us in silence and solitude.

— Brennan Manning

The Christian with depth is the person who has failed and who has learned to live with it.

— Brennan Manning

Childlike surrender and trust, I believe, is the defining spirit of authentic discipleship.

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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust

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The way you are with others every day, regardless of their status, is the true test of faith.

— Brennan Manning

The gospel will persuade no one unless it has so convicted us that we are transformed by it.

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The first step in faith is to stop thinking about God at the time of prayer.-

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Faith means wanting God and wanting to want nothing else.

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Jesus was victorious not because he never flinched, talked back, or questioned, but having flinched, talked back, and questioned, he remained faithful.

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God not only loves me as I am, but also knows me as I am. Because of this I don't need to…

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For me the most radical demand of Christian faith lies in summoning the courage to say yes to the present risenness of…

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Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.

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Childlike in faith means the daily acknowledgment of utter dependence and that I owe my life and being to another.

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When absolute control and rigid obedience pose as love within the family and the local faith-community , we produce trained cowards rather…

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“Whenever religion shows contempt or disregards the rights of persons, even under the noblest pretexts, it draws us away from reality and…

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The anything-goes passiveness of the religious and political Left is matched by the preachy moralism of the religious and political Right. The…

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The confessing church of American Ragamuffins needs to join Magdalene and Peter in witnessing that Christianity is not primarily a moral code…

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The sinners to whom Jesus directed His messianic ministry were not those who skipped morning devotions or Sunday church. His ministry was…

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“...the institutional church, which exists to serve the people of God, is never to be confused with the church as mystery -…

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“There is a myth flourishing in the church today that has caused incalculable harm: once converted, fully converted. In other words, once…

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“The question had become not “What does Jesus say?” but “What does the Church say?” This question is still being asked today.…

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The dominant characteristic of an authentic spiritual life is the gratitude that flows from trust — not only for all the gifts…

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Sheer scholarship alone cannot reveal to us the gospel of grace. We must never allow the authority of books, institutions, or leaders…

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“The gospel is absurd and the life of Jesus is meaningless unless we believe that He lived, died, and rose again with…

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“Henri Nouwen wrote of the spiritual work of gratitude: To be grateful for the good things that happen in our lives is…

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Authentic faith leads us to treat others with unconditional seriousness and to a loving reverence for the mystery of the human personality.…

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If we maintain the open-mindedness of children, we challenge fixed ideas and established structures, including our own. We listen to people in…

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What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a…

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“The New Testament has many examples of men and women who started out well and then faltered along the way. Yet on…

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“The Word we study has to be the Word we pray. My personal experience of the relentless tenderness of God came not…

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“On a blustery October night in a church outside Minneapolis, several hundred believers had gathered for a three-day seminar. I began with…

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“The tendency in legalistic religion is to mistrust God, to mistrust others, and consequently, to mistrust ourselves.”

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“The spiritual future of ragamuffins consists not in disavowing that we are sinners but in accepting that truth with growing clarity, rejoicing…

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“His consistent banging on the drums of God’s unconditional love sounded at a time when many of us had about “had it…

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“Is there anyone I can level with? Anyone I dare tell that I am benevolent and malevolent, chaste and randy, compassionate and…

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“The spirit of Caiaphas lives on in every century of religious bureaucrats who confidently condemn good people who have broken bad religious…

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“The bending of the mind by the powers of this world has twisted the gospel of grace into religious bondage and distorted…

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Won't the awareness God loves us no matter what lead to spiritual laziness and moral laxity? Theoretically, this seems a reasonable fear,…

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“It is interesting that whenever the evangelists Mark, Luke, or John mention the apostles, they call the author of the first Gospel…

— Brennan Manning